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Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Makoto Otani, Matsumoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/042 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0421 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01); H04N 9/31 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10152 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01);
Abstract

A projector includes: an illumination device casting one detection light and another detection light onto an operation surface; a first image pickup device having a higher sensitivity to the one detection light than to the another detection light; a second image pickup device different from the position of the first image pickup device, the second image pickup device having a higher sensitivity to the another detection light than to the one detection light; and a detection device detecting that an object is in contact with the operation surface when a position of a pointing unit specified based on a first picked-up image picked up using the first image pickup device and a position of the pointing unit specified based on a second picked-up image picked up using the second image pickup device are within a predetermined range.


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